* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ).

* Alexander V of Imereti ( c. 1703 / 4 – 1752 )

* 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English chaplain ( b. 1632 )

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

The first Icelandic census took place in 1703, following upon the first Danish census of 1700 – 1701.

:* John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( 1686 – 1703 ), elder son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried

* 1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( d. 1703 )

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer ( d. 1759 )

* 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.

Carte de la Guyane françoise et l ' isle de Cayenne effectuée en 1793 par Jacques-Nicolas Bellin ( 1703 – 1772 ) un cartographe affecté au ministère de la Marine française.

* 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist ( d. 1703 )

* 1703 – Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer ( d. 1762 )

* 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1703 )

* 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader ( d. 1764 )

* 1703 – In Edo ( now Tokyo ), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku ( ritual suicide ) as recompense for avenging their master's death.

* 1703 12 February – The Archduke Charles was proclaimed king of Castile and Aragon in Vienna.

Other industries are fishery and tourism thanks to a famous act of vengeance by the Forty-seven Ronin in 1703, featured in the Chushingura.

The Revenge of the 47 Ronin, Edo 1703 ; Osprey Raid Series # 23, Osprey Publishing.

It was granted by Massachusetts in 1727 as Tyngstown to veterans of Queen Anne's War who served in 1703 under Captain William Tyng.

The First Battle of Höchstädt was fought on 30 September 1703, near Höchstädt in Bavaria, and resulted in a French-Bavarian victory under Marshal Villars against the Austrians under General Limburg Styrum.

With the help of some of Caligari's oblivious colleagues at the asylum, Francis discovers through old records that the man known as " Dr. Caligari " is obsessed with the story of a mythical monk called Caligari, who, in 1703, visited towns in northern Italy and similarly used a somnambulist under his control to kill people.

Coins of 1703 ( Queen Anne ) have the word VIGO under the Queen's head, indicating that the gold was captured from Spanish galleons in the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702, but very few of these coins now remain in existence and they are extremely valuable ( up to £ 50, 000 ).

A Royal Warrant of 10 February 1703 ( 1702 Old Style ) authorised the word " VIGO " be placed " under our effigies, which inscription we intend as a mark of distinction from the rest of our gold and silver moneys to continue to posterity the remembrance of that glorious action ".

The 1703 guinea bears the word VIGO under the Queen's bust, to commemorate the origin of the gold taken from the Spanish ships at the Battle of Vigo Bay.

The 1703 half guinea bears the word VIGO under the Queen's bust, to commemorate the origin of the gold taken from the Spanish ships at the Battle of Vigo Bay.

: See also: Lords Proprietor ( 1665 – 1703 ) and Governors under the Proprietors ( 1665 – 1674 )

The title of Duke of Buckingham and Normanby was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

He defeated another of Augustus's armies under the command of Generalfeldmarschall Adam Heinrich von Steinau at the Battle of Pułtusk in spring 1703, and besieged and captured Thorn ( Toruń ).

He died on 19 November 1703 under the name of Marchioly, during the reign of Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ).

The prisoner died on 19 November 1703, and was buried the next day under the name of Marchioly.

The dukedom was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, 1st Marquess of Normanby KG, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.

Bodley wrote his autobiography up to the year 1609, which, with the first draft of the statutes drawn up for the library, and his letters to the librarian, Thomas James, was published by Thomas Hearne, under the title of Reliquiae Bodleianae, or Authentic Remains of Sir Thomas Bodley, ( London, 1703, 8vo ).

He even intended to establish something like a general society of Italian literature, and as early as 1703 published for this purpose, under the pseudonym " Lamindo Pritanio ", a plan Primi disegni della republica letteraria d ' Italia.

The regent, under pressure from the Emperor and Lhazang Khan of the Khoshut, resigned in 1703.

He was the fourth son of Sir Archibald Primrose, 1st Baronet, a Lord of Session under the title Lord Carrington ( whose eldest son William was the father of James Primrose, who was created Viscount of Primrose in 1703 ).

During the reign of Ahmed III ( 1703 – 1730 ) and under the impetus of his grand vizier İbrahim Paşa, a period of peace ensued.

During the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 1721 ) the territory of what is now Leningrad Oblast was returned from Sweden by Russia under Peter the Great, who founded Saint Petersburg amidst the land in 1703, which soon became the capital of the Russian Empire.

: See also: Lords Proprietor ( 1665 – 1703 ) and Governors under the Proprietors ( 1665 – 1674 )

The number of Fellows had increased from 110 to approximately 300 by 1739, the reputation of the Society had increased under the Presidency of Sir Isaac Newton from 1703 until his death in 1727, and editions of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were appearing regularly.

Kirkby and Wade were shot aboard HMS Bristol on 16 April 1703 whilst she was anchored in Plymouth Sound under Captain Edward Acton.

Besides the Lois Civiles, Domat made in Latin a selection of the most, common laws in the collections of Justinian I, under the title of Legum delectus ( Paris, 1700 ; Amsterdam, 1703 ); it was subsequently appended to the Lois civiles.